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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">  <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-NJPSPSD5');</script>  <title>Dialogues with Experts｜LY Corporation</title> <link rel="icon" href="/assets/images/favicon.ico"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/assets/images/apple-touch-icon.png"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/style.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/ja/pdf_parts_img_style.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/mt-static/themes-base/css/sustainability.css"> <style> .c-image.square img{ border-radius:unset; } </style> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/sustainability/expert/"> <meta name="description" content="This page provides LY Corporation's information about [Dialogues with Experts]."> <meta name="keywords" content="Yahoo!, ヤフー,やふー,LINE,ライン,らいん,Zホールディングス,ZHD"> <meta name="pubdate" content="Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:57:49 +0900"> <meta property="og:locale" content="ja_JP"> <meta property="og:type" content="website"> <meta property="og:title" content="Dialogues with Experts｜LY Corporation"> <meta property="og:description" content="This page provides LY Corporation's information about [Dialogues with Experts]."> <meta property="og:url" content="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/sustainability/expert/"> <meta property="og:site_name" content="LY Corporation"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/assets/images/ogp_ly_en_bk_1200_628.png"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="1200"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="630"> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image"> </head> <body>  <noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-NJPSPSD5" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>  <script src="/en/en_header.js"></script> <div class="global-container"> <div class="breadcrumbs"> <ul> <li><a href="/en/"><img src="/assets/images/icon_home.svg" width="14" height="14" alt="Home"></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/sustainability/">Sustainability</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/sustainability/esg/">Sustainability initiatives</a></li> <li>Dialogues with Experts</li> </ul> </div> <div class="page-heading-lv3"> <div class="inner"> <h1>Dialogues with Experts</h1> </div> </div> <div class="body-container bottom-padding"> <div class="body-inner search-target"> <p class="c-body">To appropriately address various issues surrounding digital platform operators and fulfill social responsibilities, LY Corporation and the Group companies incorporate the opinions of experts from a variety of fields and sincerely consider these issues while ensuring fairness and objectivity. </p><div class="c-vertical-link-list sp-viewmore"><div class="inner"><h4 class="heading">INDEX</h4> <ul><li><a class="c-icon-link" href="#1">Expert Panel on AI Ethics</a></li><li><a class="c-icon-link" href="#3">Expert Panel on Handling Requests for Information Disclosure From Investigative Agencies and Ensuring Their Transparency</a></li><li><a class="c-icon-link" href="#4">Expert Panel on Privacy Based on Users' Standpoint</a></li><li><a class="c-icon-link" href="#9">Past Expert Panels</a></li></ul></div> <button type="button"><span>VIEW more</span></button> </div><p class="c-body right">As of January 6, 2025</p><h2 class="c-h2" id="1">Expert Panel on AI Ethics</h2><p class="c-body">Examines the future of AI technology use and its ethical aspects in a digital society.</p><table class="c-table" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 20%; padding: 5px 10px;">Purpose</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;">Established to clarify the basic policies necessary to enable users to use services and AI technologies without anxiety in a digital society, and to formulate effective voluntary rules.</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Matters deliberated</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;">- How AI technology should be used, and ethical aspects taking into account the needs of society<br />- Compatibility of the Basic Policy on AI Ethics with the needs of users and society, from the standpoints of legal systems and technology<br />- Consistency of the voluntary rules with the Basic Policy on AI Ethics, and effectiveness of the voluntary rules</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Members<br />(without honorifics)</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;">Takehiro OHYA (Chairperson/Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University)<br />Shigeo KAWASHIMA (Associate Professor, School of Cultural and Creative Studies, Aoyama Gakuin University)<br />Machiko SAKAI (Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo)<br />Hideaki TAKEDA (Professor, Principles of Informatics Research Division, National Institute of Informatics)<br />Akira TAJIMA (Head of LY Research)<br />Hiroki HABUKA (Project Professor at Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University.)</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Period</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">1st meeting June 22, 2021<br />2nd meeting October 5, 2021<br />3rd meeting December 10, 2021<br />4th meeting February 14, 2022<br />5th meeting May 9, 2022<br />6th meeting March 13, 2023<br />7th meeting October 17, 2023<br />8th meeting February 20, 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Related links</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;"> <div class="c-vertical-link-list no-frame mt0"> <ul> <li><a class="c-icon-link pdf" href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/news/archive/Z/en/en20210623.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Z Holdings Hosts "Expert Panel on AI Ethics | former Z Holdings Corporation (Press release)</a></li> <li class="mt10"><a class="c-icon-link pdf" href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/news/archive/Z/en/en20220706.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Z Holdings Corporation Announces the "Z Holdings Group Basic Policy on AI Ethics" | former Z Holdings Corporation (Press release)</a></li> <li><a class="c-icon-link" href="/en/company/responsibleai/">Basic Policy on AI Ethics</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><h2 class="c-h2" id="3">Expert Panel on Handling Requests for Information Disclosure From Investigative Agencies and Ensuring Their Transparency</h2><p class="c-body">Examines policy on how to respond to request for information disclosure from investigative agencies, etc., and how the response status should be disclosed.</p><table class="c-table" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 20%; padding: 5px 10px;">Purpose</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;">Established for the purpose of discussing the policy on how to respond to request for information disclosure from investigative agencies, etc., for criminal investigation and lifesaving, and how transparency reports should be disclosed, based on opinions from experts in criminal law, privacy, information security, etc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Matters deliberated</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;">- Policy on how to respond to request for information disclosure from investigative agencies, etc.<br />- How transparency reports should be disclosed</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Members<br />(without honorifics)</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Masahide MAEDA (Chairperson/Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Metropolitan University)<br />Kaori ISHII (Professor, Faculty of Global Informatics, Chuo University)<br />Shiho KONNO (Lawyer, Shiho Konno Habataki Law Office)<br />Kiyoshi YASUTOMI (Professor Emeritus, Keio University, Lawyer (Advisor, Atsumi & Sakai))</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Period</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">1st meeting March 10, 2021<br />2nd meeting June 9, 2021<br />3rd meeting November 1, 2021<br />4th meeting September 5, 2023<br />5th meeting July 2, 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Related links</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;"> <div class="c-vertical-link-list no-frame mt0"> <ul> <li><a class="c-icon-link pdf" href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/news/archive/Y/en/en20210728_B.pdf">Yahoo! JAPAN Releases Transparency Report on Its Policy and Status on Response to Disclosure Requests from Law Enforcement Agencies | former Yahoo Japan Corporation (Press release) </a></li> <li><a class="c-icon-link" href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/privacy-security/privacy/transparency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Transparency Report</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><h2 class="c-h2" id="4">Expert Panel on Privacy Based on Users’ Standpoint</h2><p class="c-body">Examines privacy measures implemented when handling user data.</p><table class="c-table" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 20%; padding: 5px 10px;">Purpose</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;">Established to objectively and rigorously evaluate whether the privacy-related measures and details and processes of information disclosure implemented when the LY Corporation Group utilizes user data, can meet the expectations of its users and society, and to make improvements.</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Matters deliberated</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">- How data should be handled and data protection policy<br />- Response to regulations on privacy such as the Act on the Protection of Personal Information</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Members<br />(without honorifics)</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Hiroshi KAWAGUCHI (Representative Director, Kawaguchi Sekkei, Inc.)<br />Tadashi KUNIHIRO (Outside Director, LY Corporation)<br />Masahiko SHOJI (Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Musashi University)<br />Masatomo SUZUKI (Professor, Graduate School of Modern Society and Culture/Faculty of Law, Niigata University; President, Japan Institute of Law and Information Systems)<br />Mari SONODA (Adviser, LY Corporation)<br />Miki NAGATA (Information Communication Consumer Network)<br />Ryoji MORI (Attorney-at-Law, Eichi Law Offices)</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Period</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;"><Advisory Board for Privacy><br /><br />1st meeting August 15, 2019<br />2nd meeting January 29, 2020<br />3rd meeting March 12, 2020<br />4th meeting April 10, 2020<br />5th meeting October 9, 2020<br />6th meeting December 16, 2020<br /><br /><Expert Panel on Privacy><br />1st meeting November 17, 2021<br />- Handling of data, etc. in the Z Holdings Group<br />- Data usage related to credit analysis in the financial services<br /><a class="c-icon-link pdf" style="font-size: 1.4rem; margin-top: 5px;" href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/sustainability/details_ExpertPanelonPrivacy20211117_en.pdf">Details of the 1st meeting</a><br /><br /><Expert Panel on Privacy Based on Users' Standpoint><br />1st meeting February 8, 2022<br />Based on the proposals received from the Special Advisory Committee on Global Data Governance, the Company renamed the Expert Panel and invited new members in order to reinforce the horizontal and vertical governance structure as well as to fulfill its accountability to the users and society.<br />- About Basic Policy on Data Protection<br />- Revision of Privacy Policy in response to the Revised Act on the Protection of Personal Information, etc.<br />- How data should be handled, etc. in the Z Holdings Group<br /><a class="c-icon-link pdf" style="font-size: 1.4rem; margin-top: 5px;" href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/sustainability/details_ExpertPanelonPrivacyBasedonUsers20220208_en.pdf">Details of the 1st meeting</a><br /><br />2nd meeting June 14, 2023<br />- Handling of data at LY Corporation after the merger 1<br />*More details to be added<br /><br />3rd meeting July 26, 2023<br />- Handling of data at LY Corporation after the merger 2<br />*More details to be added<br /><br />4th meeting September 5, 2023<br />- Administrative guidance from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to Yahoo Japan Corporation （Issued on August 30, 2023)<br />*More details to be added</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Related links</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;"> <div class="c-vertical-link-list no-frame mt0"> <ul> <li><a class="c-icon-link" href="/en/company/dataprotection/">Basic Policy on Data Protection</a></li> <li class="mt10"><a class="c-icon-link outbound" href="https://privacy.lycorp.co.jp/en/advisoryboard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Advisory Board for Privacy -LY Corporation Privacy Center</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><h2 class="c-h2" id="9">Past Expert Panels</h2><dl class="c-accordion"> <dt>Expert Panel on Democracy in the Digital Era</dt> <dd> <div class="inner"> <div class="c-col-set-1"> <p class="c-body">Examines various issues surrounding digital platforms and the impact of digital platforms on modern democracy.</p> <table class="c-table" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 20%; padding: 5px 10px;">Purpose</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;">As a company engaged in the platform business providing the infrastructure for information distribution, LY Corporation established the Panel to examine the future of democracy in the digital era, and to study from a broad perspective, the roles expected of digital platform operators and response policies.</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Matters deliberated</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;">- Various issues surrounding digital platforms such as fake news<br />- Impact of the state of digital platforms on modern democracy<br />- Roles expected of digital platform operators and response policies</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Members<br />(without honorifics)</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Tatsuhiko YAMAMOTO (Chairperson/Professor, Keio University Law School)<br />Hajime OGAWA (Visiting Editorial Writer , The Mainichi Newspapers)<br />Yuko KAWAI (Attorney-at-Law, Nishimura & Asahi)<br />Manabu SHINTANI (Director, Bungei Shunju Ltd.; General Manager, Bungei Shunju)<br />Tateshi HIGUCHI (Former Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police Department, Former Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar)<br />Shuichiro HOSHI (Professor, Faculty of Law, Tokyo Metropolitan University)<br />Shinichi YAMAGUCHI (Associate Professor, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan)</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Period</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">First Half<br />1st meeting January 20, 2021<br />2nd meeting April 7, 2021<br />3rd meeting May 31, 2021<br />4th meeting July 7, 2021<br />5th meeting August 3, 2021<br />6th meeting October 11, 2021<br />7th meeting January 12, 2022<br /><br />Second Half<br />1st meeting October 21, 2022<br />2nd meeting December 16, 2022<br />3rd meeting February 8, 2023<br />4th meeting May 9, 2023<br />5th meeting July 25, 2023<br />6th meeting October 24, 2023<br />7th meeting January 30, 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 10px;">Related links</td> <td style="padding: 5px 10px; word-break: normal;"> <div class="c-vertical-link-list no-frame mt0"> <ul> <li><a class="c-icon-link pdf" href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/news/archive/Z/en/en20210121.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Z Holdings Corporation Holds Inaugural Meeting of “Expert Panel on Democracy in the Digital Era” | former Z Holdings Corporation (Press release)</a></li> <li class="mt10"><a class="c-icon-link pdf" href="https://www.lycorp.co.jp/ja/sustainability/archive/s_yimg_jp_i_docs_csr_article_2022_report.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Expert Panel on Democracy in the Digital Era – Interim report | former (Japanese only)</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> <script src="/en/en_footer.js"></script> </div> <a href="#top" class="page-top">Page top</a> <script src="/assets/js/lib.js"></script> <script src="/assets/js/common.js"></script> </body> </html>